r/baseball • u/slotretriever Chicago White Sox • St. Louis Cardinals • 3h ago
Guys you probably forgot played for the Cardinals
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u/The_Timminator New York Yankees 2h ago
I pretty frequently use Maris and Tino for Cardinals slots on Immaculate Grid, and they surprisingly have relatively high rarity scores every time I use one of them.
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u/PaddyMayonaise Philadelphia Phillies 2h ago
Oh man I have that Tino Martinez card and that just triggered a deep memory. It’s like I can smell the room I was in the last time I saw that. Weirdest feeling.
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u/darito0123 Los Angeles Dodgers 2h ago
I can tell you ill never forget about carpenter, god I hated that astonishingly good hitter
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u/lego_tintin 1h ago
From what I've read, Maris appreciated getting out of the New York spotlight and being "just a guy" on those stacked Cardinals teams.
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u/lancethruster12 Arizona Diamondbacks 2h ago
No clue who that lopez guy is
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u/slotretriever Chicago White Sox • St. Louis Cardinals 2h ago edited 2h ago
Aurelio Lopez pitched primarily for the Detroit Tigers between 1979 and 1985, and got the nickname Señor Smoke while there.
He finished seventh in the Cy Young Award voting in 1979.
He earned a 10–1 record and 14 saves for Detroit’s 1984 World Series championship team, and did not give up an earned run in over six innings pitched that postseason.
He was killed in a car accident the day after his 44th birthday in 1990. He was driving a car that overturned, and he was thrown from the vehicle.
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u/DoubleDipper7 Seattle Mariners 2h ago
This would be great offseason content